In Peru, informal artisanal mining plays a very important socio-economic
role, it contributes a lot of money to the national economy but in an irregular way.
Informal artisan miners, as they do not have any "legal" demands, generate themselves
health problems derived from accidents and diseases through the processes of such risky
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activity. This, without a doubt, can be avoided based on the education of the safety and
health of the Peruvian families dedicated to the informal mining.
This problem, (accidents and diseases at all ages) brought to light the divorce between
the process of mining formalization and Occupational Safety and Health. This allows us
to see, in turn, the benefits and errors that occurred in it, which creates an opportunity to
realize that, the more requirements are established to formalize a miner, it will be more
expensive for him and, therefore , less attractive will be formal. For this reason, what is
proposed in this article is the search for the sustainability of artisanal informal mining
through a process of formalization, based on the health and safety of those who work in
it.